Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Larkin

Life is first boredom, then fear,

Laini Taylor

Boredom is a terrible affliction of the soulless.

John Updike

How can the planet keep turning and turning and not get so bored it explodes?

James Richardson

I'm sitting here bored, ... trying to remember that everything is a complete mystery.

Liana Liberato

I don't necessarily look for what I respond to in a script. I look for things that scare me, and take that as an indication that I should probably do it. I don't want to be bored. I look for challenges. I look for a variety of different things because it's so easy to go the cliche route.

Liana Liberato

I don't ever want to be bored, doing the same thing from 9 to 5. I've always loved pretending and being someone different.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

So eager to die are you? (Zakar) Not particularly, but I’d rather go down clubbing Kessar than from boredom. (Kat)

Terence Stamp

A lot of newspapers say, Terence Stamp is playing himself and we're as bored as he is.

That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.

Nick Frost

I love working. I feel guilty about doing nothing; I get bored.

Miranda July

I looked out the window for other passengers in love with their drivers, but we were well disguised, we pretended boredom and prayed for traffic.

Mignon McLaughlin

Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity, and always its result.

Avi

The truth is I don't watch TV at all. It bores me.

Voltaire

All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Don't let people treat you like a cigarette, they only use you when they're bored and step on you when they're done. Be like drugs, let them die for you.

Peggy Noonan

I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor.

Marie Antoinette

I am terrified of being bored.

Maureen Dowd

The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act bored and above-it-all.

Eliot Spitzer

As founders of a company that bore their names, Mr. Pilgrim and Mr. Baxter should have set an example of integrity and fair play, ... Instead, they were at the center of improper conduct that deceived and harmed their clients.

Jess Glynne

'Rather Be' and 'Real Love' are two of the most fun songs to perform; they're such feel-good tracks. 'Rather Be,' especially - I've sung it so many times, but I'm still not bored of it.

John Milton

Oft he seems to hide his face, / But unexpectedly returns / And to his faithful champion hath in place / Bore witness gloriously.

William Wordsworth

The music in my heart I bore long after it was heard no more

Chauncey Billups

Strange as it sounds, we get bored sometimes being able to win so many games so easily. It's not something that should happen, but it's what did happen.

Miranda Cosgrove

Sometimes I get kind of bored if I go like a month or so and I'm not doing anything. At first I'm like, 'Cool, I'll have a little time off and I'll get to hang out with friends,' but then after a little while goes by I'm like, 'Oh,' and I really wish that I could go back and start doing work again.

Linus Torvalds

Now, most of you are probably going to be totally bored out of your minds on Christmas day, and here's the perfect distraction. Test 2.6.15-rc7. All the stores will be closed, and there's really nothing better to do in between meals.

Maria Bello

At first I didn't know if I wanted to do TV again. I can get bored quickly.

Lance Berkman

This is probably the result of coming back too soon last year. I'm sure that I'm not going to be going full bore at the start (of camp). I'll be working my way back into it.

Greg Smith

They were consistent all night, but we bore down there at the end defensively.

Susanne Bier

There were 10 or 15 years where all the Scandinavian movies were gray and light brown. I got really bored with it. I really felt that movies had to have that life of vivid colors.

Tim Henman

There were times in 2005 when I was sick of tennis but I looked at it in the context of over 20 years competing. My school holidays used to be about which tournaments I'd play in. It's human nature to get just a little bored with it and that is the first time it had happened to me.

Roman Polanski

With each film, i need an artistic challenge so I don't get bored! I like to tackle challenges.

Susan Orlean

I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom - a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training - but like all former flying phobics, I retain a weird and feverish fascination with aviation news, especially bad news.

Susan Cain

Flow is an optimal state in which you feel totally engaged in an activity...In a state of flow, you're neither bored nor anxious, and you don't question your own adequacy. Hours pass without your noticing.